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  • #1
    Bertrand Russell
    “Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of very great importance.”
    Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

  • #2
    Ernest Hemingway
    “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #3
    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    Albert Camus

  • #4
    Paulo Coelho
    “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #5
    Epicurus
    “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
    Epicurus

  • #6
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    Socrates

  • #7
    Socrates
    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
    Socrates

  • #8
    Socrates
    “To find yourself, think for yourself.”
    Socrates

  • #9
    Socrates
    “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
    Socrates

  • #10
    Socrates
    “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
    Socrates

  • #11
    Socrates
    “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
    Socrates

  • #12
    Socrates
    “The hottest love has the coldest end.”
    Socrates

  • #13
    Socrates
    “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
    Socrates

  • #14
    Socrates
    “One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”
    Socrates

  • #15
    Socrates
    “The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.”
    Socrates

  • #16
    “What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.”
    Jeremy Binns

  • #17
    Socrates
    “To be is to do”
    Socrates

  • #18
    Socrates
    “When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.”
    Socrates

  • #19
    Socrates
    “Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”
    Socrates
    tags: love

  • #20
    Socrates
    “An unconsidered life is not one worth living.”
    Socrates

  • #21
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “On meurt toujours trop tôt ― ou trop tard. Et cependant la vie est là, terminée: le trait est tiré, il faut faire la somme. Tu n'es rien d'autre que ta vie.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

  • #22
    Paulo Coelho
    “After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

  • #23
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There are no facts, only interpretations.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #24
    Paulo Coelho
    “Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

  • #25
    Virginia Woolf
    “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
    Virginia Woolf, Orlando

  • #26
    Virginia Woolf
    “Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #27
    James Joyce
    “Love loves to love love.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses

  • #28
    James Joyce
    “and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”
    James Joyce, Dubliners

  • #29
    James Joyce
    “Life is too short to read a bad book.”
    James Joyce

  • #30
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



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